Αἲ αἴ

"Ai ai! Who ever would have thought that my appellation would provide a name my sufferings this way?" Aias says [this].¹ "And now it is fitting even to cry 'aiai!' twice for me and thrice."² This is in the manner of the ancients, the producing of calamities in accordance with the namings [of characters]. If he were doing well he would not have mentioned his name, but only in the midst of calamity.